Chapter 128: Chinese New Year's Eve
Zhao Hui and Fang Cancan went to the kitchen, Han Fuda was clearing the snow in the yard, and Fang Xingan heated the two kangs at home.
Now they will heat the kang, and it will be hot when you want to sit, and it doesn't cost anything, it's just pure firewood, and they have the most firewood in the countryside, and the poles of the crops, and the mountains are full of branches and leaves.
In autumn, every household will prepare a lot of firewood for the winter, and Han Fuda has of course prepared a lot.
After stuffing the kang with firewood, and after lighting it, the children were called, and then there would be smoke in the house, and people could not stay in it, so they would get up and have breakfast after washing, and then there would be no smoke in the house, and the kang would slowly become hotter and hotter.
After the children went to have breakfast and went to play on the kang, the adults began to get busy, and while the snow was not too heavy at this time, Han Fuda hurriedly went to the master's house to ask for a couplet.
The couplets of the people in the village are written by him every year, and they can go to ask for couplets after buying red paper and cutting it out at home.
The master had already prepared a long table in the hall of his house, and the pen and ink paperweight had already been prepared, and when the man came, the red paper was handed to him, and the master began to write carefully stroke by stroke.
When Han Fuda arrived, there were already many people waiting, and he also lined up, all of them knew that they had made trouble yesterday, and everyone was asking, and Han Fuda said that it was rescued by the county master.
Because everyone already knew that the beans were rescued by the county master, they also felt that the trouble should be the same, and when they heard Han Fuda say this, they all praised the county master.
After waiting for about half an hour, Han Fuda's couplet was written, and then he hurriedly put the couplet away and went over there to get the blessing character himself, which was also written by the master, but this was sold, because it was all prepared by the master himself.
A penny, that is, a big word "Fu" written on the red paper, but this is a good sign, the people in the village used to buy one and stick it on the door of the hall.
Everyone has made money this year, so I will buy a few more of these blessing words, Han Fuda bought ten, and how beautiful it will look when I go home.
After putting away the blessing characters and couplets, Han Fuda hurried home, and the snow was slowly getting heavier at this time, but fortunately he took the basket when he came, and he was not afraid of snow when he put things in the basket.
Back at home, Fang Cancan and Zhao Hui were frying twist flowers, and there were also oil cakes and oil cakes next to them, these things were very oil-intensive to fry, so the farmers didn't get them, if anyone got them, everyone would be envious.
The three children couldn't stay in the house for a long time, they were sitting in the corner of the kitchen, Fang Cancan got something out, and several children wanted to taste it, and it was estimated that their stomachs could not eat at this time.
There is sugar in the oil cake, which is the favorite of several children, and the oil cake tastes soft and sweet, and there is a thin layer of fried very crispy skin on the surface, which is particularly delicious.
After finishing these, the time was not early, Fang Cancan and Zhao Hui prepared the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner and dumplings to eat at night, while Fang Xingan and Han Fuda both went to the cemetery.
During the Chinese New Year, you should pay homage to your ancestors, and if you need someone from your family to go to the ancestral grave to invite you, you will bring incense and yellow paper to burn it, and you will invite your ancestors to your home.
Han Fuda should have gone with Han Shu and them, but he felt cold when he thought of yesterday's incident, everyone in the village knew that their children were lost, and they all came to ask after he came back.
Wang Wenle's family also came to see it a long time ago, but only his father and mother pretended not to know, and no one came to ask at all.
Today, Han Fuda went to the cemetery by himself, anyway, he knew where the ancestral grave was, and Fang Xing'an was going to Fangjiazhai to invite his ancestors, and he couldn't delay, the weather at this time couldn't stop seeing the snow for a while.
If you don't go now, you won't be able to go to the back mountain for a while, and the ancestral tombs of their Hanjia Village are all over there, so the two of them hurriedly set off in their robes.
Each person carried a basket in his hand, which contained incense and yellow paper, as well as a dish fried by Fang Cancan, fried with tofu, potatoes, cabbage and pork, which was to be sprinkled on the ancestral grave for a while, which meant that the ancestors had eaten it.
Every grave has to be sprinkled, so such a big bowl is just enough, Han Fuda has to invite his great-grandfather, great-grandmother, grandfather, grandmother and his mother-in-law, and Fang Xing'an is his great-grandfather, great-grandmother, grandfather, grandmother, and father.
Fang Cancan and Zhao Hui prepared dumplings first, they want to eat dumplings tomorrow morning, and they have to get them done today, otherwise they won't have time to wrap them tomorrow.
Preparing to wrap leeks, lean meat and tofu filling, my sister-in-law has two buns, Fang Lanying rolls out dumpling skins, she doesn't know how to make dumplings, but the dumpling wrappers are very fast, and one roll can be used for Fang Cancan and Zhao Hui to make dumplings.
When the three women were preparing dumplings, Fang Xueyi and Noisy were not idle, and the two of them also followed to learn to make dumplings, but they made a mess and were driven out by Zhao Hui and Fang Cancan.
The two could only glance at each other, and continued to sit on the side and wait, because there were many people at home, so they wrapped three dustpans, and after wrapping them, they were put outside to freeze.
Seeing that the time is almost up, Fang Cancan is about to prepare the paste, and when Han Fuda comes back, he can paste the couplet and the word Fu, add water to the small pot and slowly add flour and keep stirring, and wait until the bottom of the pot is heated and the temperature slowly rises, the water in the pot will slowly become thick, at this time, it should be stirred quickly, and when it becomes transparent, this paste will be fine.
Take the pot down and set it aside to dry for a while, and then you can use it to paste the couplets.
Here the dumplings were brought out and frozen, and the paste was ready, and over there, I heard that the children in the village were running around, making trouble, and Fang Xueyi and the troubles couldn't sit still.
Fang Cancan was a little hesitant, yesterday's incident scared her, thinking that there was nothing going on in the village, so she agreed to let the two go out to play, but she said that she would come back every once in a while, otherwise she would not be allowed to go out.
After the two went out to play, Fang Cancan and Zhao Hui prepared tonight's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Fang Cancan prepared steamed fish, braised chicken nuggets, duck soup, braised pork and other meat dishes here, and Zhao Hui made stir-fried cabbage heart, spicy tofu, sour and hot potato shreds and other vegetarian dishes.
Han Fuda came back soon, and took out the ladder at home to paste the couplet, while Fang Lanying followed behind him to help hold the ladder or hand something over.
When the couplet at the door was finished, Fang Xing'an also came back, and the two hurriedly pasted the word blessing, pasted it on every door in the house, and then pasted it on the wall, and even the statue of the god was also pasted.
Now there is only the sticker of the god of the stove at home, because on the twenty-third day to sacrifice the stove, the god of the stove has already been pasted in advance, and it is enough to paste the statue of the god in other places.
After Han Fuda got all these ready, they just had to wait for the Chinese New Year's Eve meal to be ready, and their family could spend Chinese New Year's Eve, at this time Han Fuda and Fang Xingan cleaned the house from back to front.
Tomorrow is the first day of the new year, and you can't use a broom, otherwise you will sweep away the family's wealth, and by the time the two of them have cleaned the house, the sky has already darkened.
"Dad, when are you going to set off firecrackers?"
Noisy and Fang Xueyi ran back, and when they saw Han Fuda from a distance, they asked.
Han Fuda said with a smile: "When your mother makes the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, we can set off firecrackers." ”
As soon as he heard the trouble, he went to find his mother again, there were already firecrackers in the village, Han Fuda took out the big red lantern prepared at home and hung it at the door of his house, there was a very thick candle in this lantern, but it burned all night.
Someone in the village has already lit the lanterns and set off the firecrackers, so the air at this time is the smell of firecrackers, and the red lanterns are dotted in the dark night, usually as long as it is dark, you can't see the surrounding mountain villages clearly, and at this time the red lanterns are blurry.
And the New Year's flavor of the mountain village embellished with red lanterns is also strong, and every household does not buckle the red lanterns, red couplets, and is full of joy.
The children are running around chasing me, the boys are staring at whose house sets off firecrackers, and when they are finished, they go to find the firecrackers that are not lit, and after the family has prepared the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, they shout loudly to their children to go back.
The sound of firecrackers, the call of family, and the smell of food, red lanterns, couplets, and the Chinese New Year's Eve in the small mountain village began to liven up.
Zhao Hui had already prepared the vegetarian dishes, and Fang Cancan here was still preparing meat dishes, and the trouble came in, "Mother, when is the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner?" ”
Fang Cancan glanced at the pot, "It's going to be almost half an hour, so don't worry." ”
Troublemaker pouted, "It's going to take so long!" ”
Fang Cancan smiled and said, "Of course, you can go play again!" Isn't this the time to set off the most firecrackers? Hurry up and find firecrackers! “
After hearing the trouble, his eyes rolled, and he looked at Fang Xueyi and said, "Cousin, are we still going?" ”
Fang Xueyi nodded, "Let's go play again." Fang Xueyi saw that the adults in the family were busy, so he decided to take his younger brother out to play first and come back later.
When he was about to go out, he saw Han Tianhua come in, he was the big brother who was making trouble, and Fang Xueyi also knew about it, so he stood in the courtyard and didn't go out.
After Han Tianhua came in, no one shouted, and went directly to Han Fuda, "Third uncle, grandpa let your family go over the New Year!" ”
Originally, tonight was going to be with the Han family, but Han Fuda was angry that they didn't care, so the family spent it in their own home, and now Han Tianhua has come over to shout, if he doesn't go over, he can't say it.
Therefore, Fang Cancan let Han Fuda go over with the trouble, he still has his mother's brother and sister-in-law at home, everyone in the village knows about this, she doesn't have anything if she doesn't go over, after all, her mother's brother and sister-in-law have suffered a lot.
She should stay at home to entertain them, so Han Fuda nodded and went to Han's house with a fuss.
Before leaving, Han Fuda changed his clothes for the trouble, the clothes he was wearing now were dirty and unpresentable, and the boys didn't pay attention when they grabbed the firecrackers, and they were lying on the ground at will.